Veeam has released Management Pack 8.0 Update 5

Veeam has released Management Pack 8.0 Update 5 for Microsoft SCOM. What's new: Support for Ops Mgr and SCVMM 1801 Veeam MP supports Microsoft System Center Operation Manager 1801 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 1801. Support for Windows Server 1709 Hyper-V Veeam MP supports Windows Server 1709 Hyper-V. Windows Server 1709 Hyper-V hosts and clusters…

By Allan Kjaer March 8, 2018 0

VMware PowerCLI 10.0 Released

VMware has released PowerCLI 10.0, this is available from Microsoft PowerShell Galery. This version deprecated some cmdlets/property and have som bug fixes. The biggest change is the Multi-Platform Support. This new version have these modules for Linux and Mac OS: VMware.VimAutomation.Common VMware.VimAutomation.Sdk VMware.VimAutomation.Core VMware.VimAutomation.Cis.Core VMware.VimAutomation.Vds VMware.VimAutomation.Storage VMware.VimAutomation.StorageUtility See the VMware blog for more information about this release here: https://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2018/02/powercli-10.html?src=vmw_so_vex_akjaer_1025

By Allan Kjaer February 28, 2018 0

Veeam Availability Orchestrator 1.0 Released

Veeam has released Availability Orchestrator 1.0. This tool is used for orchestration of failover for Veeam replication, including testing, and reporting, on this. For more information see this links: Veeam poduct page: https://www.veeam.com/availability-orchestrator.html Datasheet: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_orchestrator_1_0_datasheet_ds.pdf Release notes: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_orchestrator_1_0_release_notes_rn.pdf  

By Allan Kjaer February 27, 2018 0

RVTools 3.10 Released

RVTools is one of my favorite tools to get information out of a ESXi host or vCenter. Thanks to Rob de Veij for putting time into making this tool. This new version has a lot fo cool new features: what's new: Upgraded RVTools solution to Visual Studio 2017 Upgraded RVTools to .Net Framework version 4.6.1 Upgraded Log4net…

By Allan Kjaer February 23, 2018 0

New releases from VMware

VMware has released some new version of different products.  vRealize Network Insight 3.7 This version contains new features plus security and bug fixes. What's new: Increase in Scale for Micro-Segmentation Planning ​You can do micro-segmentation in vRealize Network Insight now for 4 million flows. Centralized Upgrade (Offline) vRealize Network Insight supports the single-click offline upgrade from…

By Allan Kjaer February 21, 2018 0

vCSA 6.5 disks sizes

Here is a list of all sizes of vCenter (vCSA) 6.5  deployments, all disks are in GB, if nothing else is specified. vCPUs and Memory is not listed. This list i made from vCSA 6.5 Update 1e. vCenter with embedde PSC and disk size = Default. Harddisk Mount Tiny Small Medium Large X-Large Harddisk 1 / /boot SWAP  12  12…

By Allan Kjaer January 31, 2018 0

Downsize storage on vCSA 6.5

I have been upgrading some vCenter Appliances 6.0 too 6.5 and in the process they had to be deployed with x-Large storage, But they don’t need that. But this size was the only available during upgrade, because some disks was extended. I could have forced the upgrade with other size choices with the CLI options and forced to use…

By Allan Kjaer January 30, 2018 0

VMware NSX for vSphere 6.4 Released

VMware has realeased NSX for vSphere 6.4. What's new: Security Services: Identity Firewall: Identity Firewall (IDFW) now supports user sessions on remote desktop and application servers (RDSH) sharing a single IP address, new "fast-path" architecture improves processing speed of IDFW rules. Active Directory integration now allows selective synchronization for faster AD updates. Distributed Firewall: Distributed Firewall…

By Allan Kjaer January 16, 2018 0